Taylor, Don
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Last updated March 9, 2025
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Don Taylor is a University of Aruba lecturer (part-time) in the Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management Studies, Honorary Counsel of Jamaica in Aruba. Mr. Taylor is a Certified Public Accountant CPA with post-graduate degrees from the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, De Monfort University, and the City of London University and with almost 20 years of experience in the hospitality industry as Director of Finance throughout the Caribbean including the Dominican Republic, St Maarten, Bonaire, and Jamaica and Aruba.
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Publication Publication Legal Systems and Economic Development: The Case of Aruba Post-Coronavirus(David Publishin, 2020) Taylor, DonThis paper intends to critically review some of the challenges rooted in Aruba’s civil law legal heritage in stimulating a post-corona economic recovery which should ideally be driven towards economic diversification. It also seeks to contextualize the effect of Aruba’s civil law system on economic growth compared to other Caribbean states with similar size, population, and tourism dependency but with legal systems rooted in the common law. This paper’s methodological approach is meta-analytical and includes a critique of the labor laws as well as the substantive role of the state in driving economic performance that is a normative feature in some civil law states. It posits that Aruba’s economic responsiveness, to the coronavirus should consider legal origins as a factor that limits its capacity and capability to execute an effective restructuring of tired economic paradigms and introduce new economic models that would challenge its mono-economic status.Publication Tourism and Development in the Senian Context: Does It Help or Hurt SIDS? The Case of Aruba(Science Direct, 2018) Taylor, DonTourism is the lifeblood of many small island independent states and those that are categorized as small non-independent jurisdictions (SNIJs) such as Aruba. The question that this paper proposes to address is whether and how tourism helps or hinders island development. Research has been conducted on the economic effects of tourism in a global context; however, our approach is to look at its effect in one destination, Aruba, and to contextualize this research by situating it among other Caribbean islands. The rationale is that tourism is of more significance to the Caribbean in terms of economic dependence and tourism intensity. Because of the density of tourism in Aruba and its mono-economical development paradigm this makes for an ideal case study.1 Our methodology is based on an ontological review of the relationship between tourism and economic development utilizing a contextualized definition of development that fits within the philosophical position of Amartya Sen. In that context defined not just in terms of GDP growth but the enhanced social welfare of its citizens also in the Senian sense as distance from unfreedom. The concept of unfreedom for purposes of this paper is based on the extent to which there is an inertia to shift paradigms even if the existing paradigm enhances vulnerability, fragility and restricts opportunities to its citizenry. Therefore, despite its impact on the economy in terms of foreign exchange, investments, and employment, there are considerable and pervasive externalities which should be considered in conceptualizing the totality of tourism’s effect on economic and social development. In this essay, we consider Sen’s (2000) definition of development as freedom and situate it in that context and introduce the work of envelopment theory as conceptualized by Sankatsing (2016).Publication Caribbean Spaces and Assertions of Asymmetric Power: A Critical Review of Property Rights and Investment Protection Clauses in Bilateral International Agreements (BITs) in British Caribbean States(2022-01-15) Taylor, DonThis book dealt with Property Rights and Investment Protection Clauses in Bilateral International Agreements (BITs) in British Caribbean States. The purpose of this research is to continue work on the developing literature of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) which, although a fairly recent legal phenomenon in international law, have developed rapidly as globalization has increased. An integral mechanism in the BIT ecosystem that serves to enhance the enforcement of property rights is the international arbitration mechanism, which allows for direct interface between host states and foreign investors and which as an international dispute settlement body that carves out legal sovereignty from host states in order to the ensure legal protection of foreign investors. Finally, this research has shown that initial impressions of BITs as vehicles of the neocolonialist, neo-imperialist agenda for Caribbean host states has been challenged by the capacity of the BIT regime to evolve, to incorporate change, and to attempt to reduce the efficacy of power asymmetry.Publication Law and Property Rights in Small Island States in the Caribbean: A Modern Mode of Colonial Plunder.(University of Curaçao (Universidat di Kòrsou), 2019) Taylor, Don; Faraclas, Nicolas; Severing, Ronald; Weijer, Christa; Echteld, Elisabeth; Rutgers, Wim; Delgado, SallyAbstract Legal rules should be reflective of domestic social values, and while they are structurally institutionalized in Caribbean societies, they are also reflective of a colonial past, and in many cases represent a continuation of the dependency that characterizes the emergence of neo-colonialism. Laws of many Caribbean States defer to metropolitan institutions which are divorced from the current social context from which they ought to derive. This article intends to explore briefly the theoretical and contextual underpinnings of legal rules regarding property rights that can guide our insights into issues of critical importance to their proper formulation and enforcement in Western neoliberal societies and neo-colonial Caribbean societies. The protection of property rights has particular impact on the tourism sector in the Caribbean, where there has been an implicit and pervasive acceptance of the neoliberal legal model that allows, for example, the establishment of chain hotels on small islands. This has resulted in new modalities of colonialism, if we define colonialism as the exploitation of the resources of the South by the resurgent metropoles of the North.